# Is there a website about countries? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 7, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-about-countries/193605 "2003-08-07T15:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-about-countries/193605/1 "2003-08-07T15:59:53Z")
I was wondering if there was a website that tells you salient facts about a country, such as the population, major exports, GDP, so on and so forth. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-about-countries/193605/2 "2003-08-07T16:04:17Z")
[The CIA World Factbook](http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/) should answer many of your questions. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-about-countries/193605/3 "2003-08-07T16:05:27Z")
[CIA world factbook](http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-about-countries/193605/4 "2003-08-07T16:30:23Z")
I was coming here to post a link to the CIA world factbook, but since I’m too late can I add. Are there any other good free resources, especially with good quality atlas graphics, for world info? ---
**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-about-countries/193605/5 "2003-08-07T16:57:32Z")
Try here. [http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/](http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/) ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-about-countries/193605/6 "2003-08-07T17:18:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sqube \* > \*\*I was wondering if there was a website that tells you salient facts about a country, such as the population, major exports, GDP, so on and so forth. \*\* I think each country may have its own web site with facts, such as Spain: [http://www.sispain.org/](http://www.sispain.org/) ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-about-countries/193605/7 "2003-08-07T17:24:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Are there any other good free resources, especially with good quality atlas graphics, for world info? I have not found anything that has let me put my print atlases aside. [Multi Map](http://multimap.com/) comes the closest in terms of general topography and decent road maps. [Online World Atlas](http://www.maps.com/explore/atlas/) is not too bad, but it does not really beat the CIA maps. For the U.S., the [Microsoft Terraserver](http://terraserver-usa.com/) provides topographical maps and aerial photographs while [MapQuest](http://www.mapquest.com/) provides road maps and aeriel photographs. [BALI and INDONESIA on the Net](http://www.indo.com/distance/) has a latitude/longitude finder with a great circle distance calculator.